Monday, July 27, 2015

I was pleased to present a small installation at the Zalando Fashion House curated by Not Just A Label during Berlin Fashion Week SS16. During the four days of Berlin Fashion the Kaufhaus Jandorf was turned into a hub of contemporary fashion and design, hosting a series of talks and events. A highlight of the Berlin Fashion Week schedule, I was thrilled to have my working included. Read more about the event here.

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

I managed to get a ticket to the Manish Arora SS 2014 show at the Palais de Tokyo for Paris Fashion Week last week - first time at PFW - and the collection was spectacular! Such amazing combinations of pattern, colour, embellishment and styling.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

I am excited to be teaching at a workshop at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow at the end of the month! The school is one of the most important centres in Russia and works in close partnership with the school of Creative Arts of the University of Hertforshire in the UK and specializes in professional education in various creatives fields.

I will be presenting a lecture about Wearable Art Technologies: Between Art, Fashion and Architecture, and a lecture called New Vision of Fashion Exposure: Off the Catwalk to Exhibition and Interdisciplinary Collaborations, as well as leading a practical workshop.

Friday, May 10, 2013

I recently made a short trip to Amsterdam and had the
opportunity to speak at Pecha Kucha. I really like the PK format and have
spoken at a few of them, and I think in way they take the temperature of the
creative scene of the cities in which they are run. PK Amsterdam is run by duo
Jeroen Beekmans and Joop de Boer behind the creative agency Goldstromen. Appearing
to be some kind of design master minds, they also run this fantastic blog
called Pop-Up City which documents ideas that “shape the future city”, manifested
as a diverse profiling of international trends in technology, street culture,
architecture, design, sustainability and all sorts of high-brow lo-fi DIY
interventionism. It’s really great and worth subscribing to!

PK Amsterdam is held in the location Trouw which was
previously a newspaper factory, now containing a restaurant and multi-purpose
venue club space. The reconverted building retains its original industrial
aesthetic (read vast slabs of concrete) and the club features a multi-coloured
neon light configuration which anchors the echoing of the various different
indirect and ambient lighting scattered throughout the complex. All in all it
made a very comfortable venue to watch the speakers and hang out before and
after for the large crowd of almost 400 who turned up to see the presentations.

The presenters mostly came from Amsterdam except myself and
one other artist from Rotterdam and below are some of the speakers whose work and
projects I found particularly interesting, but you can find the full list of
speakers from the night at the PK Amsterdam website. I really enjoyed the
diversity of the presenters, which included artists, graphic designers, a bike
called Arnold, a high school teacher who writes a blog of the things his students say to him, and a guy who played the Jewish Harp, which sounds like the love
child of the didgeridoo and harmonica. It was pretty cool.

Rick Companje from Doodle3D who had created a tablet to produce 3D printing which kind of looks like an Etcher Sketch but then converts the 2D drawing into 3D and then can immediately be printed as a 3D object, really great!

During my
stay I also checked out the Droog Hotel and independent project space called
Amstel 41 to see exhibition EVERYTHING SEEMS TO HAPPEN TO ME, ONE CATASTROPHE
AFTER THE OTHER by Swedish collaborators Emilia Bergmark and Loui Kuhlau, as well as so many flowers!